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cn coin 9077

Connected to Type

CN Type 1396 🔍

Mint
Bizye 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

139-161 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse Μ ΑVΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟV-ΗΡΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Design
Bare head of youthful Marcus Aurelius, right.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΒΙΖVΗ-ΝΩΝ
Design
Banquet scene; male figure reclining left on kline, placing his right hand on the left shoulder of a female figure seated to right and leaning on the left edge of the kline, which has a three-legged table under it to right and two ornated legs to left, right leg with a twisted band around; in the left background, a tree upon which hangs a cuirass and beneath which man stands facing, head right, in short chiton placing his right hand on amphora to left; in the right background, forepart of a horse advancing left, lifting left hoof; in upper central field, shield.
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Persons

Sitter: Marc Aurel 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
4 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
Max: 25 mm / Min: 24 mm
Weight
9.46 g
Axis
7
Owner

American Numismatic Society, New York, us ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1944.100.15574

Literature

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 121, nr. 1435 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 53, nr. 19 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 202, nr. 13-19 ❐

Jurukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye, Berlin 1981 p. 53, nr. 18-19 ❐

Tachev, Monetosečeneto na Bizija (The Coinage of Bizye), Sofija 2019 p. 202, nr. 13-19, pl. 12 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values II 2. Thrace (from Abdera to Pautalia), Bourgas 2005 p. 121, nr. 1435 ❐

Web Reference: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/183288 ❐

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cn coin 9077, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_9077 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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